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Author Oelhafen, Ingrid von, author.

Title Hitler's forgotten children : [a true story of the Lebensborn program and one woman's search for her real identity] / Ingrid von Oelhafen & Tim Tate ; with Dr. Dorothee Schmitz-Koster.

Publication Info. New York : Berkley Caliber, 2016.

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Location Call No. Status
 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  940.531 OEL    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  940.5349 OE6    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  940.5349 OELHAFEN    Check Shelf
 Simsbury Public Library - Non Fiction  940.5349 OELHAFEN    Check Shelf
 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  940.5349 OE    Check Shelf
Edition First U.S. edition.
Description ix, 275 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, plates ; 24 cm
Note Previously published: London : Elliott and Thompson Limited, 2015.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 275).
Note Subtitle from dust jacket.
Summary "Created by Heinrich Himmler, the Lebensborn program abducted as many as half a million children from across Europe. Through a process called Germanization, they were to become the next generation of the Aryan master race in the second phase of the Final Solution. In the summer of 1942, parents across Nazi-occupied Yugoslavia were required to submit their children to medical checks designed to assess racial purity. One such child, Erika Matko, was nine months old when Nazi doctors declared her fit to be a 'Child of Hitler.' Taken to Germany and placed with politically vetted foster parents, Erika was renamed Ingrid von Oelhafen. Many years later, Ingrid began to uncover the truth of her identity. Though the Nazis destroyed many Lebensborn records, Ingrid unearthed rare documents, including Nuremberg trial testimony about her own abduction. Following the evidence back to her place of birth, Ingrid discovered an even more shocking secret: a woman named Erika Matko, who as an infant had been given to Ingrid's mother as a replacement child. Hitler's Forgotten Children is both a harrowing personal memoir and a devastating investigation into the awful crimes and monstrous scope of the Lebensborn program"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Oelhafen, Ingrid von.
Lebensborn e.V. (Germany)
World War, 1939-1945 -- Children -- Biography.
World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, Yugoslav.
Eugenics -- Germany -- History -- 20th century.
HISTORY -- Holocaust.
HISTORY -- Military -- World War II.
Genre/Form Personal narratives.
Added Author Tate, Tim, author.
Schmitz-Köster, Dorothee, 1950- author.
ISBN 9780425283325 (hardback) : $28.00
0425283321 (hardback)
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